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Windows 7: '5D' discs can store data until well after the sun burns out

I will never understand the way some computer types (and now ladies, it seems) insist in turning light-hearted, anecdotical discussions about the use of technology into flaming wars, personal agression and claims that only morons do things differently from them.

Your suggestions that "I want to live in the past", "be bound to my fragile, vulnerable possessions", that I'm "sadly mistaken" or that it is "my fault" if I can't read old floppies anymore are downright insulting, condescending, and have no place in a civilised conversation of any sort.

Just so you know Clairvaux, I share your reaction--I suppose only the mods can tell us why this person gets away with these sorts of posts here.

I salute you for your love of books, and envy your collection. We recently acquired a 2nd home which not only has a library, but the now-elderly folks who had lived there asked us if they could leave the books, and needless to say we were more than thrilled. I have a few Kindles and there's no comparison to the joy/experience of "real" whether hardcover or paperback.

We also are fanatics about scanning and archiving personal documents, and indeed I have every piece of paper we have ever touched on my smartphone as a result. Impressed a friend of mine once at lunch by calling-up an old W-2 in just seconds, from 1970. In the U.S. we do need to keep hardcopy of tax papers for at least 5 years, and home purchase docs "forever", but apart from these we save nothing of paper files whatsoever.

'5D' discs can store data until well after the sun burns out

Using vssadmin command line to store Restore files on the DATA driveIn David Karp's book Windows 7 Annoyances he shows how to move your System Restore files to your DATA Volume or Drive - Command prompt in Administrator mode - My OS (W7 Home Premium x64) is on C: and my data is on drive D: - so the Command is as follows -
vssadmin add shadowstorage /for=C:...

Performance & Maintenance

Store my data on SSD or NOTI purchase two SSD recently.
One for the improvement of the PC start up.
The rest one, I prepare to store my valuable data on it.
The data is about 300GB. It contains nearly all pictures
and videos when I was still in college.
So I have a backup on net disk.
Now I not sure that I should...

Hardware & Devices

Data Store File Missing, Unable Select Aero or Basic themesI had been having problems with being able to select Aero or Basic themes. I have been in Windows Classic for 6-8 months and never thought to change it. Today when trying to switch to an Aero theme I noticed both Aero and Basic are grayed out and unselectable. After reading forums and looking...

Themes and Styles

Windows Boot Configuration Data (BCD) store file error.Hi everyone,
I tried to install new updates of Ableton live and the machine crashed badly... and since them it has really gone a bit wonky. :cry:
When I press the on button to boot up the laptop I get the following message.
The Windows Boot Configuration Data (BCD) Store file contains...

Backup and Restore

Software to back up data discs to hard disk filesHi,
I'm looking for advice on good software to back up data CD / DVD discs to my hard disc. I would like to be able to make an exact copy, which would then let me run the application as if I had put the disc in the drive.
Could anyone suggest software to do this type of archiving, or can I...

Backup and Restore

Blu ray drive reads data discs but not blu ray moviesSo here is the problem I have
I have an LG BH08LS20 Blu ray drive which I have used for about 4 months to play blu ray movies.
I was running XP x64 with PowerDVD 7.3 which was bundled with the drive.
I then started dual booting with Win 7 RC x86 with the same PowerDVD software and it still...